The most recent OS X Mountain Lion Server seed, build "12S219N," comes on the heels of Wednesday's Mountain Lion client build "12A206J" and is the latest developer preview to be released in the ongoing beta testing process that is scheduled to yield a gold master ready for public consumption sometime this summer.

A number of issues to be ironed out by developers include installing apps on iOS managed devices, a sporadic Spotlight problem in Xsan and SMTP server authentication in Mail. Also of note is a directory services bug that sees clients failing to bind to non-SSL-enabled Open Directory Servers.

I'm conflicted as to whether I should move from SL server to LIon server. There doesn't seem to be much advantage.

But I'm glad to see ML server. Apple's commitment to OSX server has seemed a bit in question recently. I wouldn't be disappointed if they decoupled OSX client from server. I don't want to be upgrading my server OS every 12 months.

I'm conflicted as to whether I should move from SL server to LIon server. There doesn't seem to be much advantage.
But I'm glad to see ML server. Apple's commitment to OSX server has seemed a bit in question recently. I wouldn't be disappointed if they decoupled OSX client from server. I don't want to be upgrading my server OS every 12 months.

It seems like the change from Lion to Mountain Lion is much, much smaller than the change from Snow Leopard to Lion. I imagine that we'll see smaller changes with only a 12 month cycle, and hopefully updating won't be too big a deal. On the plus side with the faster release schedule we may see Apple keeping the open source components more up to date. Usually they would pick a version of OpenLDAP or OpenSSL and you'd be stuck with that for 18-20 months until the next major version of the OS came out.

Also I hope ML server marks the end of Apple removing functionality from Server, and they start going back the other way.

Sad thing is 10.8 will only run on a 64bit Apple ROM. I think that sucks. My MacPro is a 2,1 and will not run Mountain Lion unless I have the os and then it still wont run stable. AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

I'm conflicted as to whether I should move from SL server to LIon server. There doesn't seem to be much advantage.
But I'm glad to see ML server. Apple's commitment to OSX server has seemed a bit in question recently. I wouldn't be disappointed if they decoupled OSX client from server. I don't want to be upgrading my server OS every 12 months.

I'm conflicted as to whether I should move from SL server to LIon server. There doesn't seem to be much advantage.
But I'm glad to see ML server. Apple's commitment to OSX server has seemed a bit in question recently. I wouldn't be disappointed if they decoupled OSX client from server. I don't want to be upgrading my server OS every 12 months.

I'd wait if I were you. Lion (and ML, for that matter) have been buggy as all get-out for me. Unless you really need the few added features like push email to iOS like was mentioned above, stick with the stable build you're running now. I think ML is going to be great once the bugs have been worked out, but that's going to be months from now.

I'd wait if I were you. Lion (and ML, for that matter) have been buggy as all get-out for me. Unless you really need the few added features like push email to iOS like was mentioned above, stick with the stable build you're running now. I think ML is going to be great once the bugs have been worked out, but that's going to be months from now.

I don't need that feature at all (push email to iOS clients).

I think I'll wait for a few .x updates to ML and then decide if its worth it to upgrade my server os. Frankly SL server works just fine for me.